Cashel Of Munster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB CCBB DDDD EEFF GHDD| From the Irish | A |
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| I'd wed you without herds without money or rich array | B |
| And I'd wed you on a dewy morn at day dawn gray | B |
| My bitter woe it is love that we are not far away | B |
| In Cashel town tho' the bare deal board were our marriage bed this day | B |
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| O fair maid remember the green hill side | C |
| Remember how I hunted about the valleys wide | C |
| Time now has worn me my locks are turn'd to gray | B |
| The year is scarce and I am poor but send me not love away | B |
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| O deem not my blood is of base strain my girl | D |
| O think not my birth was as the birth of a churl | D |
| Marry me and prove me and say soon you will | D |
| That noble blood is written on my right side still | D |
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| My purse holds no red gold no coin of the silver white | E |
| No herds are mine to drive through the long twilight | E |
| But the pretty girl that would take me all bare tho' I be and lone | F |
| O I'd take her with me kindly to the county Tyrone | F |
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| O my girl I can see 'tis in trouble you are | G |
| And O my girl I see 'tis your people's reproach you bear | H |
| I am a girl in trouble for his sake with whom I fly | D |
| And O may no other maiden know such reproach as I | D |
Sir Samuel Ferguson
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